Hammered by years of debt, drought and desperation, Cambodia’s smallholder farmers have long supported themselves by sending family to work in Phnom Penh factories. But the pandemic has upended the arrangement, forcing unemployed workers back to failing farms.
Author Archives: Chan Muyhong
Chan Muyhong is a freelance journalist in Phnom Penh. She is a former business reporter for the Phnom Penh Post. Her bylines appear on VOD, New Naratif, China Dialogue and South China Morning Post. She is an Internews Earth Journalism Network grantee and a Mekong Data Journalism 2021 fellow.
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Drought, Construction, and Dry Wells
Much of Cambodia experienced water shortages this dry season, but in Sihanoukville, locals and officials say drought, rapid building and population growth have placed new hardships on people’s access to water.